For the soldiers of the 17th Guards Division, today is their lucky day.
With the arrival of Lord Count for inspection, they received a rather sumptuous dinner. Additionally, having received new uniforms in preparation for the Count's arrival, the 17th Guards Division now looks like a truly elite force, both in terms of morale and appearance.
In this era, limited by logistical supply constraints, what soldiers can typically eat each day mainly includes salt-cured pork (usually a whole barrel cured, with a taste beyond words), potatoes (made into mashed potatoes with milk if possible) or chickpeas (choices vary by region, with corn more common in the New Continent), and a bowl of vegetable soup (what's available depends on what the quartermaster purchased from local farms).
Bread and hardtack are not altogether absent, though the bread and hardtack of this era are certainly vastly different from the understanding of them in Perfikot's original world before the crossover.
